Opinion

“I need work experience to get the job, but I need the job to get work experience.” We’ve all heard the complain or some variation of it and it’s not without good reason. These days it seems that almost all entry level jobs require experience to even get a chance at an interview. Internships, externships, …

In the musical Matilda, there’s a musical number titled, “Naughty”. The chorus of the song goes: Just because you find that life’s not fair, it doesn’t mean that you just have to grin and bear it. If you always take it on the chin and wear it, you might as well be saying you think …

Well, not always anyway. To clarify, all advertising is marketing, but not all marketing is advertising. A Common Misconception I was introduced to an academic from a polytechnic at an event sometime in 2018 and the older gentleman made it quite clear that he did not like the idea of marketing. This was quite an …

This post was originally written in February 2018 on Linkedin – http://bit.ly/2EUNpbB It’s recruitment season again The GCE ‘O’ Level results were released last month and the ‘A’ Level results should be at the end of February. Then we’ll have the polytechnic students getting their results in March/April. Institutes of Higher Learning (IHLs) including Private …

For years, there’s been talk about Millennials in the workforce and how to manage or deal with them. In fact, it’s been around for so long that you’ll find corporate trainers providing courses on dealing with Millennials as managers! As we move towards the end of 2018 with another wave of Gen Z-ers entering the …